GUEST: I keep them up year-round, but I have a special place in the entryway for holiday items.

So, I love the holidays.

APPRAISER: These are decorative candy containers.

They're holiday, uh, decorations or ornaments.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: But they served a purpose that you could actually store a small biscuit, cookie, a candy inside.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: So you can give the item to the child, they'd have a sweet and a snack, and then it became a decoration thereafter.

I'll actually show you on this one here, so... She detaches in half.

And this would be the storage container.

This one is a quite large example.

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: And you can see, the size of his candy head GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: is much larger.

GUEST: A lot of room for candy in there.

APPRAISER: A lot of room for a lot of candy.

GUEST: (laughs): Lots of cookies, yeah.

APPRAISER: He is much larger than we commonly see for a seated bunny candy container.

GUEST: Are they glass eyes?

APPRAISER: They, they are glass eyes.

Each of these is more or less handmade.

There are molds.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: But they're all handmade, hand-painted, and hand-dressed.

APPRAISER: So there'll be slight variation to each one.

And they're primarily made of GUEST: Wow.

either a pressed cardboard, sort of a composition or papier-mâché material... GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: and then a lot of the cloth material, fabric, is a, a felt-like material.

And each of these, I believe, was made in Germany.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: They were most likely made for a number of years, several decades, even.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: So, a comfortable circa is some time between 1900 and 1920.

Highly collectible.

Many of these were made in numerous different sizes.

So this is a fairly large bunny.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: About a medium-sized witch, and that's a small Santa.

The value ranges, and condition is very important.

However, they display lovely.

Collectively, you have an auction estimate value here of $8,000 to $12,000.

GUEST: Oh, wow!

Wow, that's great!

That's great news!

Which one would you say would be the most valuable?

APPRAISER: Uh, at this present time, Halloween is a very hot field.

GUEST: Oh, really?

APPRAISER: It is.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Christmas has always been the king, but right now, Halloween is GUEST: Halloween's hot.

APPRAISER: taking a position.

APPRAISER: So, this witch at auction could easily fetch $3,000 to $5,000.

GUEST: Okay.

GUEST: Oh, wow!

I'll have to look for more witches.

(chuckles) Yes, but I, I think I'll have to keep her, though.